Instructions on How to Sew an Infant Car Seat Cover Replacement

Add some color to your carseat with a new carseat cover.

Infants are messy. They spit up, drool and explode bowl movements from their diapers, and all of these messes end up as stains on the car seat cover. While you could pay anywhere from $40 to $100 for a replacement car seat cover, consider sewing your own, custom-fitting car seat replacement cover, instead.

Things You'll Need

• Seam ripper
• Permanent ink marker
• Foam board
• Pins
• Disappearing ink pen
• Preshrunk Fabric
• Scissors
• Foam batting
• Interfacing
• Iron
• Thread
• Sewing machine

Instructions

1. Remove the old car seat cover and take it apart using a seam ripper. Use a permanent ink marker to make note of each piece on the back side of the fabric.

2. Lay your fabric out on a foam board, wrong side up, and pin the corners down so that it does not move.

3. Lay out the old pieces on top of the fabric, wrong side up, and pin them onto the foam board.

4. Trace the pieces onto the fabric with a disappearing ink pen. Be sure and mark the location of each new piece onto the fabric.

5. Remove the pieces and cut out the new pieces from the fabric using scissors.

6. Lay out the foam batting onto the foam board and pin it down at the corners.

7. Lay the old seat cover pieces on the batting, pinning them in place. Trace them and cut out the batting.

8. Cut the interfacing into three-inch squares.

9. Layer each piece with the foam on the bottom, followed by the interfacing and then the fabric.

10. Iron the pieces together with an iron set to half heat.

11. Assemble the new seat, piece by piece with right sides together.

12. Pin and sew the pieces together using your sewing machine. For the strongest hold, triple sew each seam by first using a straight stitch to set it, then a diagonal stitch and another straight stitch.

References

• Mopar Muscle: Replacing late Model Seat Skins- Ripped Replacment